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TIL there is a single official object that defines the mass of a kilogram. A tiny, 139-year-old cylinder of platinum and iridium that resides in a triple-locked vault near Paris

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epDVL TIL about lipograms: written work in which a particular letter is intentionally omitted. Ernest Wright wrote his 1939 novel Gadsby without the letter "e," and his book was 50,000 words long.
yVPbp TIL that the word ‘Neanderthal’ originally comes from ‘the Valley of Neander,’ a 17th century German Calvinist whose surname was Greek for, quite ironically, ‘New Man’ (νέος ανήρ).
NXPJP TIL German pianos have an H key
Wk6Pd TIL The chainsaw was first invented to assist childbirth by sawing ligaments in a woman's pelvis
Z8EbG TIL Singapore will pay couples the equivalent of $120,000 to have 2 babies. It’s called a baby bonus and it’s meant to fight the quickly dropping fertility rate in the country.